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by Randall Stross · 4 Sep 2013 · 332pp · 97,325 words
you’ve launched, you’ve launched too late,” but in the retelling by others, the qualifier “in consumer Internet” was dropped. 5. “Clustrix Emerges from Stealth Mode with Industry’s First Clustered Database System for Internet-Scale Applications,” Clustrix press release, May 4, 2010, www.clustrix.com/company/news-events/press-releases
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston · 14 Aug 2008 · 468pp · 233,091 words
be able to share your idea. Ross: Incredibly. If you ever want to stop a conversation dead in its tracks, just use my magic words: “stealth mode.” I’ve also found “programmer” to work well in many situations. But we’ll have our day. Livingston: Are there any lessons that you learned
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
by Eric Ries · 13 Sep 2011 · 278pp · 83,468 words
and even spouses. In fact, at one point, some investors were seriously recommending that we pull the product out of the market and return to stealth mode. Fortunately, as we pivoted and experimented, incorporating what we learned into our product development and marketing efforts, our numbers started to improve. But not
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much bigger problems, and secrecy won’t fix them. Sooner or later, a successful startup will face competition from fast followers. A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode—away from customers—is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is
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theater, selectively finding data that support their vision rather than exposing the elements of the vision to true experiments, or, even worse, staying in stealth mode to create a data-free zone for unlimited “experimentation” that is devoid of customer feedback or external accountability of any kind. Anytime a team attempts
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It
by Kashmir Hill · 19 Sep 2023 · 487pp · 124,008 words
on the record to sing the company’s praises. He said that the company had not been responding to my requests because it was in “stealth mode” and because one of the founders had some “Gawker history” which he wasn’t keen to have unearthed. He told me that law enforcement loved
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app with real promise and a strong wind in its sails. He had also become a naturalized American citizen. Like many early-stage startup founders, he was in stealth mode, but his need for quiet didn’t stem only from his fear of competitors. There was a state law with stiff financial penalties
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those glasses if they ever made them. Ton-That and Schwartz asked people using the app to keep it quiet because the company was in stealth mode, but not everyone complied. Ashton Kutcher spilled the beans when he appeared on a widely watched YouTube series called Hot Ones, in which famous guests
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
by Tom Eisenmann · 29 Mar 2021 · 387pp · 106,753 words
consumers would interact with a social robot. Another barrier to gauging customer demand can be an entrepreneur’s paranoia. Some founders insist on staying in stealth mode as long as possible to keep rivals from stealing their ideas. Steve Jobs was famous for insisting on strict secrecy and then introducing new products
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executive vice president of its Home Division—a business with billions of dollars in revenue. Shai Agassi founded another clean tech startup after Better Place failed: Newrgy, which remains in stealth mode but is speculated to focus on public transportation solutions. Letter to a First-Time Founder Dear Founder: Congratulations for taking the
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou · 20 May 2018 · 359pp · 110,488 words
the same way. He understood technology companies’ need to protect their valuable intellectual property. In any case, the company would soon be coming out of “stealth mode,” as Elizabeth called it, and that’s where he came in: his job was to make its commercial launch as impactful as possible. Redesigning the
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper · 18 May 2015 · 387pp · 112,868 words
’d overheard Nick saying. Nick showed up at Morehead’s private gathering because a few months earlier he had quietly joined a cryptocurrency startup that was operating in stealth mode. The startup, Vaurum, was based a few blocks from Wences’s office in Palo Alto and focused on the task of matching up big
The Startup Wife
by Tahmima Anam · 2 Jun 2021 · 297pp · 83,528 words
Cyrus if I can spend some of our WAI money on building a lab for the Empathy Module. Jules is encouraging me to stay in stealth mode. “Just let him do what he does best—talk to the brethren—and the rest of us can enjoy being mortal,” he says. Jules is
How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
by Tim Draper · 18 Dec 2017 · 302pp · 95,965 words
words “therapy” and “diagnosis.” I liked her passion so much I committed a $1 million investment at about a $10 million valuation. Theranos operated in stealth mode for nearly 10 years while she developed the “nanotainer,” a microfluidic device that takes two drops of blood for testing; and the “minilab,” an integrated
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words
and how headquarters can reinforce low-yield behavior. Raj’s second directive to the staff was that DIUx 2.0 was going into stealth mode. Much like a startup that had just raised a big round of funding, we needed time to figure out what we were doing. Though our goals were
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be shamed into restoring our funding. Back in Mountain View, we assembled the team and told them that we needed to shift into warp speed. Stealth mode was out. Dealmaking was in. Without explaining the depths of the crisis we were facing, we instructed the team to start taking pitch meetings.
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